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1) Have you ever wondered why events like these seem to "repeat" ? Why do bad things happen on schedule and what is the connection? HINT: Creativity Comes From God, Lack of Creativity is what I call the Broken Record. 
3) Now Lets Connect the Names to the Spanish Flu> Bill Gates Sr/Jr + Rockefeller + Anthony Fauci
This is MU Deputy General Secretary @NaomiPohl taking over @WeAreTheMU for live commentary and analysis on the #BrennanBill debate starting shortly. #FixStreaming #BrokenRecord
Watch live on BBC Parliament or ParliamentLive.TV at parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/d9…
Thanks to cross-party MPs who have expressed support for the #BrennanBill and understand why we must #FixStreaming and get a fairer deal for musicians & music creators. We held an event in the House of Commons last night to promote the Bill which was very well attended.- NP
Today is the last day to get in touch with your MP and ask them to support the #BrennanBill.
This Bill is the result of one of the most extensive select committee inquiries ever held.
The elements it brings in were recommended by multiple lawyers, academics and executives.
This Bill is the result of one of the most extensive select committee inquiries ever held.
The elements it brings in were recommended by multiple lawyers, academics and executives.
A form of Equitable Remuneration has been part of the international conversation around streaming for over a decade. This is nothing new or unconsidered.
Contract limits already exist in places like the USA and the Netherlands.
The right to see our own data is obvious.
Contract limits already exist in places like the USA and the Netherlands.
The right to see our own data is obvious.
But legislation is an iterative process. The bill has to go through a committee and report stage before being finally read so it can change completely.
How it changes can be influenced by industry.
The work being done by the IPO can feed into this process.
It's a process.
How it changes can be influenced by industry.
The work being done by the IPO can feed into this process.
It's a process.
Today the @CommonsDCMS Committee publishes its report into the economics of music streaming. Here's a thread of the report's findings and recommendations. (1/25) #BrokenRecord #FixStreaming
Streaming has helped save the music industry following two decades of digital piracy but it is clear that what has been saved does not work for everyone. Issues created by streaming reflect fundamental problems within the recorded music industry. Streaming needs a reset. (2/25)
We urge Universal and Warner to look again at the issue of unrecouped balances with a view to enabling more of their legacy artists to receive payments when their music is streamed. (3/25)
An extraordinary list becomes ever more extraordinary.
The signatories to the letter we've sent to @BorisJohnson today.
156 becomes 234.
#BrokenRecord
The signatories to the letter we've sent to @BorisJohnson today.
156 becomes 234.
#BrokenRecord
Ever felt like our flourishing music industry, which contributed £5.2bn to the UK economy in 2018, has been thrown under the Brexit bus?
It’s a shame that, unlike fishing (worth £437m to UK economy in 2019) our industry isn’t a priority.
(Even with a Tory running @UK_Music 🤷)
It’s a shame that, unlike fishing (worth £437m to UK economy in 2019) our industry isn’t a priority.
(Even with a Tory running @UK_Music 🤷)
UK music economy stat source: ukmusic.org/news/music-ind…
UK fishing stat source: @BBCRealityCheck by @BBCChrisMorris & @mroliverbarnes bbc.co.uk/news/46401558
Disgraceful.
🇪🇺 EU offered a “standard” Visa-free touring exemption
❌ Tories rejected it due to @pritipatel’s immigration crackdown
🇪🇺 “It is untrue to say they asked for something more ambitious”
❌ due to Visas, some acts may no longer tour the UK
independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
🇪🇺 EU offered a “standard” Visa-free touring exemption
❌ Tories rejected it due to @pritipatel’s immigration crackdown
🇪🇺 “It is untrue to say they asked for something more ambitious”
❌ due to Visas, some acts may no longer tour the UK
independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
Wonder if Roger Daltrey’s g-g-generation will pay for some Visas so artists can tour europe in the future...?
Indeed. Also:
UK fishing industry's value to the economy: £1.4 billion
UK music industry: £5.8bn
UK fishing industry's value to the economy: £1.4 billion
UK music industry: £5.8bn
Earlier this year, songwriters, composers and performers started sharing how little they got from streaming – while big music companies raked in billions #BrokenRecord...
#FixStreaming #KeepMusicAlive
#FixStreaming #KeepMusicAlive
.@IvorsAcademy and the Musicians’ Union started campaigning for a Government review - and over 17,000 of you backed the call...
#FixStreaming #KeepMusicAlive
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#FixStreaming #KeepMusicAlive
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Press picked it up, including @pitchfork, @WiredUK and @bbc5live. They’re still going - catch up with @MrTomGray and MU Deputy General Secretary @NaomiPohl speaking to @Ed_Miliband and @GeoffLloyd on @CheerfulPodcast...
#FixStreaming #KeepMusicAlive
musiciansunion.org.uk/campaigns/fix-…
#FixStreaming #KeepMusicAlive
musiciansunion.org.uk/campaigns/fix-…
Miss @fionabevan, @sowetokinch and legend @nilerodgers giving evidence at the @CommonsDCMS #MusicStreamingInquiry today?
Check out the highlights & analysis from MU Deputy General Secretary @NaomiPohl 👇
Check out the highlights & analysis from MU Deputy General Secretary @NaomiPohl 👇
It's time to #FixStreaming and #KeepMusicAlive!
Catch up with part two of today's @CommonsDCMS #MusicStreamingInquiry highlights & analysis from MU Deputy General Secretary @NaomiPohl 👇
Catch up with part two of today's @CommonsDCMS #MusicStreamingInquiry highlights & analysis from MU Deputy General Secretary @NaomiPohl 👇
“It just needs some parity and fairness in the system"
Catch up with what @MrTomGray, @Guy_Garvey, @nadineshah and @EOBOfficial had to say in the first @CommonsDCMS #MusicStreaingInquiry session
👉 musiciansunion.org.uk/all-news-and-f…
#BrokenRecord #FixStreaming #KeepMusicAlive
Catch up with what @MrTomGray, @Guy_Garvey, @nadineshah and @EOBOfficial had to say in the first @CommonsDCMS #MusicStreaingInquiry session
👉 musiciansunion.org.uk/all-news-and-f…
#BrokenRecord #FixStreaming #KeepMusicAlive
This is MU Deputy General Secretary @NaomiPohl! I am taking over @WeAreTheMU for the next few hours for a @CommonsDCMS #MusicStreamingInquiry tweetalong. Sessions start at 10am. This is why it matters: musiciansunion.org.uk/Home/News/2020… #FixStreaming
Catch up with some of the highlights from the first #MusicStreamingInquiry sessions looking at creators’ experiences musiciansunion.org.uk/Home/News/2020… as well as Equitable Remuneration & transparency musiciansunion.org.uk/Home/News/2020… #FixStreaming - NP
Today we will hear from @nilerodgers @sowetokinch & @fionabevan about why the song should receive more than 10-15% of streaming revenue and how the economics of music streaming aren't working for many musicians. We can #fixstreaming! - NP
Seeing as it’s Spotify unwrapped week and it’s Bandcamp friday tomorrow and there’s a streaming inquiry going on, here’s a question I’ve been pondering: How successful should a musician have to be to make a living from making their own music? Strap in for THREAD TIME! (1)
This is partly informed by me suspecting that me and Peter are basically the least successful musicians managing to make a (meagre, let’s be honest) living from our own music, but our circumstances are very, very particular and couldn’t be a very effective model beyond that (2)
Namely, we live somewhere where space is cheap, we have always been interested enough in recording that we can make records ourselves very cheaply, we are prepared to suck up a lot of hard, boring work (driving, repairing, bookkeeping, tour managing) in order to... (3)
10 minutes to go until the next #AskTheMU! Got a question about streaming, royalties, or the campaign to #FixStreaming and keep music alive? Ask now #AskTheMU
Hi everyone, this is Naomi Pohl from @WeAreTheMU and Graham Davies from @IvorsAcademy. We’ll be answering your questions about streaming over the next 30 minutes or so. Do you have a question about streaming, royalties or our #FixStreaming campaign? Ask us #AskTheMU
“If the song gets more money will the performers get less?” – anon #AskTheMU
User-centric payments in streaming, where monthly payments get split up to exactly what you listened to is a great idea, but there’s another model we developed that could work even better for all parties. I call it a Facilitator model, or user-based licensing. #brokenrecord
We waste hundreds of millions in existing/potential revenue through the process of licensing platforms like Spotify. And existing models means we also make it impossible for any other player to compete unless they have massive capitalization. Let’s examine our facilitator model
In the tech world of cloud based services, many of the services you use as a consumer are actually provided by a back end cloud-based solutions provider that the developer users to build some kit on & repackage those services in a fashion that is useful for their platform & you.
“Ek’s saying that musicians need to look at themselves less as artists and more as content creators. We have no muse to serve but the marketplace, and without adhering to the rapid 💓 rate that is Spotify’s demand for new food for their algorithm, our careers are bound to perish”
Let’s flip Spotify’s words:
“some streaming services that used to do well in the past may not do well in this future landscape, where you can't a (re)launch new groundbreaking music platform once every three to four years and think that’s going to be enough.” @eldsjal
“some streaming services that used to do well in the past may not do well in this future landscape, where you can't a (re)launch new groundbreaking music platform once every three to four years and think that’s going to be enough.” @eldsjal
"The streaming services today that are making it, realise that it's about creating a continuous engagement with their fans.
It is about putting the work in, about the storytelling around the service, and about keeping a continuous dialogue with your fans"
👀 @Spotify 🤷♂️
It is about putting the work in, about the storytelling around the service, and about keeping a continuous dialogue with your fans"
👀 @Spotify 🤷♂️
There has been recent chatter about the ‘worth’ of music (not something that can really be valued, save by people who know the price of everything and the value of nothing).
Here is my thread on this...
Here is my thread on this...
Whilst I should try and avoid questions like this – I really do enjoy the mental gymnastics of trying to estimate these things.
The bear argument is that if supply for music increases exponentially and consumption increases arithmetically then the value of music must decrease.
Here’s a thought about @PaulMcCartney and his beat combo.
Between 1965 and ‘69, many people assert that some of the greatest records ever produced were made by The Beatles
They never played a single live show in that period.
Let’s look at if Rubber Soul was released today.
Between 1965 and ‘69, many people assert that some of the greatest records ever produced were made by The Beatles
They never played a single live show in that period.
Let’s look at if Rubber Soul was released today.
In 1965, 1.8 million copies sold in the USA. 11 songs. That’s 19.8 million confirmed song sales. That’s about £80k for Parlophone in streaming terms and £16k for The Beatles.
Let’s be fairer, say everyone averaged listening 20 times that year.
So that’s £1.6 million and £320k
Let’s be fairer, say everyone averaged listening 20 times that year.
So that’s £1.6 million and £320k
The band recorded for one month in Abbey Road Studio 2. Renting that room, a rough guess, £3k per day. So that’s £90k for the room. A producer of George Martin’s stature today, no less than £15k. So the band are already endebted to the label for £105k.
OH MY GOD. The deals between the majors and the streaming services.
The thread many of you requested. It gets a bit sticky, tricky and puzzling, but that’s the point.
The thread many of you requested. It gets a bit sticky, tricky and puzzling, but that’s the point.
The themes of this story: a lack of transparency and accountability for artists and a system that disdains the relationship between artists and their fans.
What makes telling this so hard is these deals are hidden behind NDAs for “reasons of commercial confidentiality”.
What makes telling this so hard is these deals are hidden behind NDAs for “reasons of commercial confidentiality”.
You won’t be surprised that I think this is bullshit. It is a serious flaw of the present system that the scrap for minor advantage between labels is paramount. Forget fair remuneration or helping artists understand their audiences…. Priorities you say.
Today in @CommonsDCMS we looked at the impact of the Covid-19 crisis on the music industry with @WeAreTheMU's General Secretary, Horace Trubridge. Here's a short thread on some of the important issues discussed.
I asked him how the Covid-19 crisis has impacted the music industry. He tells me it has hit the livelihood of musicians and those working in the industry hard. He adds that more than 20% of people believe they will have to leave music and start a new career.
I asked him if the government support schemes have helped those in the music industry and if any people are falling between the gaps of help on offer. He tells me 40% of those in the music industry have found they don't qualify for any government help.
Short thread on #BrokenRecord - this is a really interesting report with stats from Music Business World - here mailchi.mp/musicbizworldw… 1/5
It shows a changing current in music streaming services like Spotify - people aged 45 and above added more music subscriptions in UK (+1.695m) in past year than everyone 44 and under (+1.14m) 2/5
It seems to me that older subscribers are likely to be more price inelastic consumers than younger ones who the original long frozen price point was based on a decade ago - which means... 3/5
Why the music industry HAS to change and why it has to change now. A thread. Stick with it!
I hope it’s not wrong of me to assume that most people don’t know or fully understand how musicians get paid. Truth is, I know an awful lot of musicians that don’t understand how they get paid.
We can’t expect our legislators or, more importantly, consumers to demand change on our behalves when it is such an annoyingly complex picture. However, everything is getting desperately clear.
